Literary critic and educator. Correspondence,
memoranda, journal, manuscripts of articles, book reviews, and books, research
material, notes, reports, and other papers relating to Hyman's
career as literary critic, book reviewer, and professor of language,
literature, and the history of myth and ritual at Bennington College,
Bennington, Vermont. Of special interest are files pertaining to his book review
column published in the
New Leader and letters written to Hyman by his wife,
Shirley Jackson, and by his friend and mentor, Kenneth Burke.